 | Big Brown: The Untold Story of UPS by Greg Niemann
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $12.47 UPS retiree with 34 years service writes first book about enigmatic company. One reviewer said, "In Big Brown, Niemann successfully delivers the goods--just as UPS has been doing for 100 years."
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 | The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by Thomas L. Friedman
Buy used from: $0.55 Fascinating account of the dynamics that drives world commerce today, and oh, so real!
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 | Trading Up: The New American Luxury by Michael Silverstein
Buy used from: $0.45 When only the best will do, and why. Authors explore the background of the demanding American consumer.
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 | Baja Legends: The Historic Characters, Events, and Locations That Put Baja California on the Map (Sunbelt Cultural Heritage Books) by Greg Niemann
Buy new: $14.00 / Used from: $9.90 According to the Baja California Sur Director of Tourism Roberto Van Wormer Ruiz, "Baja Legends is a well-researched and easy-to-read history of the people and resorts that helped make Baja what it is today."
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 | Baja Fever: Journeys into Mexico's Intriguing Peninsula by Greg Niemann
Buy new: $19.00 / Used from: $13.00 Memoirs of a lifetime of romping around Baja. One reviewer called it a gold mine of Baja history and adventure.
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 | Flags of Our Fathers by James Bradley
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $0.70 An in-depth look behind the war in the Pacific. Why some islands were so strategic, and specifically Iwo Jima, where the author gives background on the men who raised the flag in the famous photo.
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 | Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer
Buy new: $18.15 / Used from: $0.99 This is an illuminating book about religion, and how blind faith can lead some people astray.
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 | River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze by Peter Hessler
Buy used from: $1.50 A fascinating insider's viewpoint of modern Chinese students, what motivates them, their complexities. These are the people who will be leading the new China.
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 | Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town by Paul Theroux
Buy used from: $3.15 I'm a Paul Theroux fan, having read all his books. This newer one in which he revisits Africa is very enlightening. He observes and examines the complexities behind how the indiscriminate throwing of money and aid can do more harm than good.
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 | Palm Springs Legends: Creation of a Desert Oasis by Greg Niemann
Buy new: $13.46 / Used from: $2.42 This book is full of interesting facts and stories about the development of Palm Springs, covering the Indians, pioneer, health resorts, celebrity hideaways, and more, right up to the re-emergence of downtown Palm Springs today.
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